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If you write blog posts or perhaps ebooks or articles based on technology, one of the first requirements of many is finding a decent screenshot program. One of the best, in my opinion, for Windows users has to be Screenshot Captor, as it allows editing of the screenshots taken, and possesses some large configuration options. And it’s a free download.

Screenshot Captor is available from http://donationcoder.com. You can download this and install the little application immediately, but to get rid of the nag screen at the start you are encouraged to browse back to the developer’s website for a license key. At the site, there is the hope that you will donate (via PayPal) to the developers, but you don’t necessarily need to do that. Registering at the forums will give you access to a six month free license key for Screenshot Captor, ridding yourself of the nag screen on start-up. A year after first install you can request a permanent free license key if you haven’t donated already.

The program puts an icon into your system bar, with options to Grab the entire workspace, the screen you’re working in, selected regions, and with various delay or hotkey grabs also.

Screenshots grabbed are placed into a default folder for you, with a default autoname including the date. I have reset the folder to one under my own documents, and during the edit save my own screenshots as jpgs.

Once the screen capture is inside the program, you have various special effect options. You can select an area of the screenshot and blur, grey out or dim out the image outside this selection, allowing you to highlight particular areas.

Screenshot Captor also comes with internal editing objects such as text entry, clipart additions, and arrows. Screenshots themselves can be used as objects inserted into other screenshots. You can add borders, or shadows to your screenshot and add captions. All of these features can be used in combination with each other, with an undo button handy also.

Finally, you can configure external tools within Screenshot Captor, allowing you to add your favourite image editors for instance. Then the program can open your screenshot into this editor for further work. Screenshots can also be sent to others via the Send To option (using email).

LinkMe : If you’re after a good free screenshot grabber, try Screenshot Captor.

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